Aesthetic composites

In many routine dentistry cases, the mental state of the patient plays an important role. In the following clinical case the patient in question, a girl of only 12 years of age, no longer wanted to go to school because she was ashamed of her smile. This girl, whose teeth 11 and 21 had become intruded through a fall and who was thus undergoing orthodontic treatment to adjust her middle incisors, attended our clinic as a patient. Our task was to develop a strategy for reconstruction of her teeth that would restore to the patient, at least temporarily, a feeling of self-esteem without having any adverse effect on her ongoing orthodontic treatment.

Premises

The considerations and prerequisites for the treatment we were to undertake were as follows:

The work was to be entirely reversible and modifiable as the incisors had just undergone orthodontic extrusion.

The aesthetic build-ups were to be carried out without any contouring of the teeth. A highly aesthetic composite (Amaris, Voco) was to be used to ensure minimally invasive treatment.